POWRE: Visiting Professor at MIT: Geologic and Geodetic Constraint on Continental Deformation and Mountain Building

9753190米勒该POWRE奖支持麻省理工学院任命中央华盛顿大学地质学教授兼主席M·梅根·米勒博士为客座教授。麻省理工学院教授布拉德福德·海格是教员主持人。米勒将开发三个相互关联的研究项目：1)与麻省理工学院合作，对加州东部剪切带七年的GPS测量结果进行建模；2)对天山进行地球动力学研究；以及3)对太平洋西北部新的永久GPS阵列的结果进行种子未来建模。在第一个项目中，对加州东部剪切带板块边缘变形的GPS观测，在CWU的数据还原已经成熟，结果已经准备好建模。此外，麻省理工学院的工作人员在中远温泉地区的中国湖观察到了一个更小、更密集的阵列，这个网络为该区域提供了背景。这个项目的建模和发布结果将是米勒在麻省理工学院一年的主要工作重点。在第二个项目中，CWU是位于中亚天山的NSF-EAR大陆动力学项目的合作机构。布拉德福德·海格是这12名美国调查员提案的首席科学家。米勒是四个联合调查员野外地质小组的成员，海格负责协调GPS工作。这次访问将是这一多机构合作走向成熟的关键时刻。POWRE奖将促进这一合作。最后，一个访问教授职位将在太平洋西北大地测量阵列的主持下，为研究太平洋西北地区的变形及其驱动过程提供新的全球定位系统测量和地球物理模拟项目。

9753190 Miller This POWRE award supports a Visiting Professor appointment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for Dr. M. Meghan Miller, Professor and Chair of Geology at Central Washington University. Bradford Hager, a Professor at MIT, is the faculty host. Miller will develop three inter-related research projects: 1) model results from seven years of GPS measurements in the Eastern California shear zone, in collaboration with MIT faculty, 2) geodynamical studies of the Tien Shan, and 3) seed future modeling of results from a new, permanent GPS array in the Pacific Northwest. In the first project, GPS observations of plate margin deformation in the Eastern California shear zone, data reduction in at CWU is mature, and the results are ready for modeling. In addition, MIT workers have observed a smaller, denser array in the Coso Hot Springs area, China Lake, for which this network provides regional context. Modeling and publishing results of this project will be a major focus of Miller's year at MIT. In the second project, CWU is partner institution on an NSF-EAR Continental Dynamics project in the Tien Shan of central Asia. Bradford Hager is the Chief Scientist on this twelve US investigator proposal. Miller is a member of the four co-investigator field geology team; Hager coordinates the GPS work. The visit will be a critical time for maturation of the collaboration on this multi-institution effort. The POWRE award will facilitate this collaboration. Finally, a visiting professorship would seed new GPS measurement and geophysical modeling projects for the study of deformation in the Pacific Northwest and the processes which drive it, under the auspices of the Pacific Northwest Geodetic Array.